1st Edition
Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History Ideology and the Historical Imagination
By Derek Flitter
Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by
Routledge
Flitter examines those narratives within the intellectual parameters that defined them, probing the conceptual strategies by which writers represented history.
Acknowledgements, Introduction: The Changeful History of Spanish Romanticism, 1 The Meaning of the Mediaeval Revival, 2 ‘Elementary’ Historiography: Spanish Reactions to Guizot, 3 ‘Ideal Eternal History’:Vico’s Providential Design, 4 Exorcising the Revolutionary Demon, 5 Reading Spain’s Recent Past, 6 Ideology and Aesthetics: The Uses of Literary History, Conclusions: History Singular and Plural, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Derek Flitter
